The reach of the republic of letters : literary and learned societies in late medieval and early modern Europe
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The reach of the republic of letters : literary and learned societies in late medieval and early modern Europe
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 168）
Brill, 2008
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- v. 1
- v. 2
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"This book is the result of two workshops held in Rome in 2003 and 2006."--P. [vii]
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-502) and index
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Present-day scholarship holds that the Italian academies were the model for the European literary and learned society. This volume questions the 'Italian paradigm' and discusses the literary and learned associations in Italy and Spain - explicitly called academies - as well as others in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The flourishing of these organizations from the fifteenth century onwards coincided chronologically with the growth of performative literary culture, the technological innovation of the printing press, the establishment of early humanist networks, and the growing impact of classical and humanist ideas, concepts, and forms on vernacular culture. One of the questions this volume raises is whether and how these societies related to these developments and to the world of Learning and the Republic of Letters.
Table of Contents
VOLUME ONE
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Arjan van Dixhoorn and Susie Speakman Sutch
1. The Consistori del Gay Saber of Toulouse (1323-c. 1484), Laura Kendrick
2. Patrons of Poetry: Rouen's Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, Dylan Reid
3. The Joyful Companies of the French-Speaking Cities and Towns of the Southern Netherlands and their Dramatic Culture (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries), Katell Laveant
4. Chambers of Rhetoric: Performative Culture and Literary Sociability in the Early Modern Northern Netherlands, Arjan van Dixhoorn
5. The Basoche in the Late Middle Ages: A School of Technical savoir-faire, Marie Bouhaik-Girones
6. The Roman 'Academy' of Pomponio Leto: From an Informal Humanist Network to the Institution of a Literary Society, Susanna de Beer
7. The Companies of Meistergesang in Germany, Michael Baldzuhn
VOLUME TWO
8. The Heritage of the Umidi: Performative Poetry in the Early Accademia Fiorentina, Inge Werner
9. The Accademia degli Alterati and Civic Virtue, Henk Th. van Veen
10. Seventeenth-Century Academies in the City of Granada: A Comparatist Approach, Francisco J. Alvarez, Ignacio Garcia Aguilar, and Inmaculada Osuna
11. The Growth of Civil Society: The Emergence of Guilds of Lawyers in the Southern Low Countries in its European Context (the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century), Hilde de Ridder-Symoens
12. Reading the Universal Book of Nature: The Accademia dei Lincei in Rome (1603-1630), Irene Baldriga
13. Alles zu Nutzen-The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (1617-1680) as a German Renaissance Academy, Gabriele Ball
Epilogue, Arjan van Dixhoorn
Appendix Questionnaire: The Reach of the Republic of Letters
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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